From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-17T03:01:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple editing. Works in IRB; not as script.

On Jan 16, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Peter Bailey wrote:

> James Gray wrote:
>> On Jan 16, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Peter Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> contents = File.read{"test1.txt"}
>>
>> That's a typo.  You want (...) instead of {...}.
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>
> Duh, sorry James, but, I don't see what you mean. I don't have any  
> (...)
> data in there. The test file I made is named "test1.txt.")

The correct line of code is:

   contents = File.read("test1.txt")

James Edward Gray II